Sunday, November 2, 2014

Breathalyzers... they're one of the few devices that's both lots of fun and totally practical. BACtrack makes some of the best. Now, Giz readers can get an exclusive discount on BACtrack's bluetooth enabled Vio (great for the holidays). Use the code "viogiz" for an extra discount, taking the price down to $39.99. » Friday 6:47pm

Yesterday was the first day of fall where I audibly said the words "damn, it's cold." Now, I actually love colder months as opposed to the sweat-inducing alternative, but that doesn't mean I don't get nostalgic when I know I'll soon be sentenced to the dreary, chap-lipped months of northeastern winters. In these times…» 27 minutes ago

In contrast to last week's gush of new apps from the Microsoft Garage project, things have slowed back to normal. But that doesn't mean that there aren't some awesome apps to mention. Let's also not forget that we achieved a major smartphone milestone this week: You can now order Taco Bell with just an app. The future… » Today 7:00pm

If you've been looking for that radical new typeface that will totally bring together than lackluster PowerPoint presentation, urine the wrong place. New York artist Aravindan Thirunavukarasu has created a typeface modeled after public pee graffiti.» Today 6:30pm

Nostalgia is making a come back, specifically warm and fuzzy feelings about the internet's early years. Influences of Web 1.0 can be seen in new apps from Facebook and Ello's stripped-down design and call for an ad-free social network. But what do you miss from those early years of web surfing? » Today 6:00pm

Welcome to another installment of Reading List where we take a look at some of the the great tech and science reads from around the web. This week we enter the weird world of sweeping, gaze through the lens of ghost cams still haunting the internet, look at why technological limits made Abbey Road Studios so… » Today 5:30pm

The thing that makes art great—whether film, books, or TV shows—is that it aims to teach us about ourselves and the human condition. But sometimes in order to do that, you need a teacher who is completely inhuman. That's where robots come in. » Today 5:00pm

A video on street harassment sparks an online debate. Fiery lava is slowly encroaching upon a town in Hawaii. And winning the World Series is always a great excuse to burn down a neighborhood. It's a hot list in this week's What's Ruining Our Cities.» Today 4:30pm

The U.N. panel charged with a five-year mission to assess global climate change and provide a necessary course of action in order to stem its negative effects finally released a Synthesis Report detailing their findings in stark black-and-white. The news was all pretty doom and gloom.» Today 3:35pm

GoPro is the go anywhere, do anything camera that's the go-to solution for athletes to capture that perfect wave or that harrowing 1080, but last night SNL dreamed up another addition to the GoPro family specifically for detecting colon cancer: the GoProbe. » Today 3:10pm

Don't be fooled by its diminutive size, the world's smallest 7x7x7 Rubik's Cube puzzle, designed by Matt Bahner, is still a considerable challenge, even for a master cube solver. In fact it might actually be even more of a challenge than the larger versions because you need to be far more precise with your finger… » Yesterday 11:04pm

Last year when Google bought Bump, an app that lets users transfer data from device to device without help from NFC, its plans for the app weren't clear. But based on reports from Android Police yesterday, Google's been working on a service that may integrate some of that functionality. » Yesterday 8:02pm

Most of us are the children or grandchildren of the generation that fought in World War II—we have the luxury of thinking about the war as history. In the great 2005 movie Walk on Water, we watch as the descendants of both German and Jewish grandparents grapple with their predecessors' actions in the present. » Yesterday 8:00pm

Casimir Pulaski is a big deal in the Midwest. In Chicago, the Polish-nobleman-turned-Revolutionary-War-hero's birthday is still widely celebrated; he has parks, streets, and schools named after him, and Obama made him an honorary citizen in 2009. His name has also been commemorated in song on more than one… » Yesterday 7:00pm

As twilight faded over Pasadena on September 9, 1894, an artificial sun flickered to life for the first time. High above town in the San Gabriel Mountains stood a wonder of the new electric age: a 60-inch General Electric searchlight, by many accounts the largest in the world. This massive projector first dazzled…» Yesterday 6:26pm

It's been almost two decades since Apple shuttered its Newton platform, which included handwriting recognition support for personal digital assistants. But it's surprising to see how well the long-forgotten product line has stood the test of time, if not the test of consumer demand. » Yesterday 6:00pm